Lava Tube Quotes

The vaults beneath the Lunar palace were carved from years of emptied lava tubes, their walls made of rough black stone and lit by sparse glowing orbs.

— If love wants you; if you’ve been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills, with warm blood and cold. With feathers and scales. Under the hot gloom of the forest canopy you’ll want to breathe with the spiral calls of birds, while your lashing tail still gropes for the waes. You’ll try to haul your weight from simple sea to gravity of land. Caught by the tide, in the snail-slip of your own path, for moments suffocating in both water and air. If love wants you, suddently your past is obsolete science. Old maps, disproved theories, a diorama. The moment our bodies are set to spring open. The immanence that reassembles matter passes through us then disperses into time and place: the spasm of fur stroked upright; shocked electrons. The mother who hears her child crying upstairs and suddenly feels her dress wet with milk. Among black branches, oyster-coloured fog tongues every corner of loneliness we never knew before we were loved there, the places left fallow when we’re born, waiting for experience to find its way into us. The night crossing, on deck in the dark car. On the beach wehre night reshaped your face. In the lava fields, carbon turned to carpet, moss like velvet spread over splintered forms. The instant spray freezes in air above the falls, a gasp of ice. We rise, hearing our names called home through salmon-blue dusk, the royal moon an escutcheon on the shield of sky. The current that passes through us, radio waves, electric lick. The billions of photons that pass through film emulsion every second, the single submicroscopic crystal struck that becomes the phograph. We look and suddenly the world looks back. A jagged tube of ions pins us to the sky. — But if, like starlings, we continue to navigate by the rear-view mirror of the moon; if we continue to reach both for salt and for the sweet white nibs of grass growing closest to earth; if, in the autumn bog red with sedge we’re also driving through the canyon at night, all around us the hidden glow of limestone erased by darkness; if still we sish we’d waited for morning, we will know ourselves nowhere. Not in the mirrors of waves or in the corrading stream, not in the wavering glass of an apartment building, not in the looming light of night lobbies or on the rainy deck. Not in the autumn kitchen or in the motel where we watched meteors from our bed while your slow film, the shutter open, turned stars to rain. We will become indigestible. Afraid of choking on fur and armour, animals will refuse the divided longings in our foreing blue flesh. — In your hands, all you’ve lost, all you’ve touched. In the angle of your head, every vow and broken vow. In your skin, every time you were disregarded, every time you were received. Sundered, drowsed. A seeded field, mossy cleft, tidal pool, milky stem. The branch that’s released when the bird lifts or lands. In a summer kitchen. On a white winter morning, sunlight across the bed.

Dry Cicuta está con Pascual. Están en el coche del padre de Pascual. Están frente a la casa de Dry Cicuta. Dry Cicuta dice gracias. Se baja del coche. Está en la puerta de casa. El perro ladra. Dry Cicuta entra. Sus padres lo saludan. Habla con ellos. Piensa: quiero que mis padres mueran para heredar la casa y una suma suficiente de dinero como para vivir durante al menos unos cuantos años sin hacer nada más que nadar en la piscina, pedir comida a domicilio todos los días, leer, escuchar música, escribir literatura, jugar a videojuegos, escribir canciones, subir un álbum a Bandcamp y crear videoclips para cada canción para subirlo también a YouTube, pintar lienzos de todos los tamaños… Se lava las manos en el baño. Se las perfuma con pachulí. Se siente mejor. Sube a su habitación. Gira el pomo. Entra. Cierra. Se santigua mirando a la estantería. Coge un libro. Lo besa. Las cerezas del cementerio, de Gabriel Miró. Lo deja sobre la cama. Vuelve a santiguarse mirando a la estantería. Coge otro libro. Lo besa también. Cicuta Dry, de Camilo José Cela.

inasmuch as a dead rock wants anything—it wants you dead too. So you can go quickly. A landslide can bury you. A lava tube can collapse on you. You can plunge headlong into a crater. A meteoroid can strike your habitat at seventy thousand kilometers per hour. A micrometeorite can bust open your spacesuit. A sudden burst of static electricity can blow

Kynes had assumed that when he finally found a hidden Fremen settlement, it would be primitive, almost shameful in its lack of amenities. But here, in this walled-off grotto with side caves and lava tubes and tunnels extending like a warren throughout the mountain, Kynes saw that the desert people lived in an austere yet comfortable style. Quarters here rivaled anything Harkonnen functionaries enjoyed in the city of Carthag. And it was much more natural.

Non so sciare, non so giocare a tennis, nuoto così così, ma ho il "senso della frase". Il senso della frase è Privilegio poiché, se lo possiedi, permette a una tua bugia di essere, se non creduta, almeno apprezzata. Nel caso poi, una volta tanto, tu ti decida a dire la verità, quella vera, quella che puzza perché non si lava con gli eufemismi, quella brutta perché non si ritocca né si abbellisce con la chirurgia estetica del ricordo, nel caso tu dica la verità, la verità pelosa, la verità arrapata, se possiedi il senso della frase la verità avrà l'aspetto un po' puttanesco eppure di classe di una bella menzogna. Il senso della frase è il sesso della frase, il suono della frase, il significato della frase. Il senso della frase battezza la frase, la estremizza e anche se la degrada col turpiloquio, la promuove comunque rendendola, alla fin fine, definitiva. Il senso della frase è il punto di arrivo del concetto espresso quando la frase è ancora nell'utero. È il punto di non ritorno. Un "punto e basta". Un punto esclamativo ma, soprattutto, 666 punti esclamativi. Diabolico senso della frase, io ti possiedo e ti amo. Fiato alle trombe di Eustachio, rimbombino le tube di Fallopio. Così è e così è stato. Non so se si nasca con il senso della frase. Di sicuro ci si muore.

She dropped to her knees, peering into the darkness. The lava-tube opening was about a dozen feet wide, and the person lay at the bottom of the deep, dark hole, almost hidden, but visible enough for Mercy to sense that something was very wrong.

True telepresence is not that far off, where instead of meandering with your fingers over a 3D topo map, you will come along in real time on a virtual field trip as your avatar strolls through a lunar lava tube hundreds of meters high and a kilometer wide, illuminated by thousands of glow-pods, to observe a new settlement under construction ahead of the first astronauts, being printed directly out of lunar soil.

I am walking down to the oak tree. And I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but I jump in and walk slowly through the lava tube. It is fairly dark, but I see in the far distance, like a pinhead, a light. Sort of yellowish, actually.